The Mane-iac attacks the ponies with a pretzel cart and a mailbox as Pinkie Pie dodges the mailbox, she demonstrates the super speed of her Power Pony persona Fili-Second.Īpplejack tries to wrangle the Mane-iac with her lasso, but it works against her, and she pins herself to a lamppost. When Applejack and Rainbow Dash wonder what's going on, Spike explains that they were transported into his comic book and that the only way out to defeat the Mane-iac. Suddenly, there's an explosion at the museum across the street, and the Mane-iac emerges from the smoke, laughing maniacally and holding an orb surging with electricity. Behind him, he sees his pony friends in superhero attire as well and recognizes them as the heroes in his comic-the Power Ponies. Spike, now in superhero attire, regains consciousness on the roof of a building in Maretropolis. Twilight and her friends, in their attempt to save him, get dragged inside as well, except Pinkie who just jumps in after them. This causes a magic spell in the comic book to come to life, and Spike is sucked inside its pages. Take a closer look to join the adventure in this book." - Spike " You can return to the place you started when the Mane-iac is defeated. As Twilight and the others take a break from cleaning and come looking for Spike, he uses a magnifying glass to read the footnote: When he suddenly reaches the end of the comic, he finds a footnote in small, hard-to-read text. Spike goes to Celestia and Luna's reading room to read, sympathizing with the bumbling Hum Drum. Twilight tells him to find someplace quiet to read his comic, and Spike shuffles off, feeling useless. Spike wishes to pitch in, but the ponies politely decline. The next morning, Twilight and her friends take part in refurbishing Celestia and Luna's old castle. Spike relents and goes to bed, but when Twilight sees him fumbling in the dark for his comic, Twilight allows him two more minutes to read. Twilight sympathizes with Spike's investment in a book, but states they'll need to be well-rested to help fix up Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's old castle in the morning. He proceeds to talk at length about the Power Ponies, their sidekick Hum Drum, and the evil Mane-iac. She sees Spike reading a comic book and tells him to go to sleep, but Spike asks for two more minutes. Twilight Sparkle is asleep in her bed when she's stirred awake by a lamp switching on. The scene when Fluttershy becomes angry and grows after Mane-iac harms a firefly reappears in Memnagerie.Įven Spike curls up with a good book now and then. Ī small part showing Pinkie in her Fili-Second costume reappears in Cakes for the Memories. This episode's original cut was 32 minutes long, however 10 minutes of footage were removed due to time constraints. Marcel Duperreault, Todd Araki, Jason Fredrickson, and Adam McGhie won a 2014 Leo Award for their work on this episode for "Best Overall Sound in an Animation Program or Series". In the clip, Applejack/Mistress Mare-velous, Fluttershy/Saddle Rager, Pinkie Pie/Fili-Second, Rainbow Dash/Zapp, Rarity/Radiance, Spike/Hum Drum, Twilight Sparkle/Masked Matter-Horn, the Mane-iac, and more characters appear. On July 20, 2013, an animatic clip of this episode was shown at San Diego Comic-Con International.
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